Qin Jiao said, "You can just lend me your bike. You don’t have to take me."

"I’ll take you to file a report first, and then I’ll take you to get a vehicle. Don’t tell me you’re planning to look for Xiao Shi on a bicycle?"

Looking at Shen Yi’s earnest expression, Qin Jiao knew that at this hour, there would be no cars available.

In this day and age, you couldn’t just hail a taxi. Her original plan had been to search for her slowly on a bicycle.

But a bicycle was indeed too slow. She might not even make it back before dark.

"Jiao Jiao, get on."

The boy was already over five-foot-eleven, with handsome features and a calm gaze. Actually, he wasn’t a boy anymore.

He was a man.

With Xiao Shi’s safety on the line, Qin Jiao stopped hesitating and hopped onto the bike. But she still said, "Once you help me find a vehicle, you need to go back. Your college entrance exams are tomorrow. I don’t know what time I’ll get back tonight, and I can’t let this mess up your exams."

"It’s fine. I brought my exam admission ticket and everything with me." Shen Yi pressed his lips together, not voicing the rest of his thoughts.

His unspoken words were, ’Compared to you, what do the college entrance exams even matter? If you don’t go to college, I won’t either. Wherever you go, I’ll go.’

It was already past five in the afternoon when Shen Yi took Qin Jiao to file a report on his bike. However, because something else was happening in Ping’an Town, most of the police force had been dispatched elsewhere. Only two older officers were left at the station.

"Don’t you worry, young lady. We’ll head to Three Families Village right away. Are your parents over there?"

"Yes, they are."

Qin Jiao had wanted to go with them, but her intuition told her that Xiao Shi definitely wasn’t in Three Families Village.

After all, she had disappeared on the way there.

She tried to carefully recall her past life, only to realize with a sinking feeling that things were different. In her past life, Xiao Shi had gone to work in another city with a girl from the neighboring village. They were tricked by human traffickers and she was sold to a small, unknown mountain village.

In this life, Xiao Shi hadn’t gone off to work!

’And she’s only ten! So young... Who could be so devoid of conscience?!’

However, Qin Jiao did remember the girl who had led Xiao Shi away in her past life. She was from the same village as Lin Nian—his older cousin, Lin Xiaohua!

’Could Xiao Shi’s disappearance be related to Lin Xiaohua? After all, their two villages aren’t far apart!’

’But that still didn’t make sense. The bus from Ping’an Town stopped at Three Families Village *before* it went to Lin Nian’s village!’

After they left the police station, Shen Yi took Qin Jiao to a repair shop. The moment the owner saw Shen Yi, he grinned, revealing a set of big yellow teeth.

"Well, if it isn’t Xiao Shen! I finished fixing your ride a while ago. Wanna try it out?"

"Yeah. I have to head out for something. Here’s the money."

"Deal." The shop owner took the money, then looked Qin Jiao up and down with a wide grin. "This your girlfriend? She’s a real beauty!"

A sweet feeling bloomed in Shen Yi’s chest, but seeing Qin Jiao’s expression, he quickly added, "Not yet. She’s my neighbor."

"I get it, I get it. Childhood sweethearts, eh? Tsk, tsk. How nice."

Qin Jiao’s lip twitched as she listened, but she wasn’t concerned about that right now. Instead, she stared in astonishment at the modified motorcycle in front of her.

’Motorcycles were rare in this era, and people who customized them were even rarer!’

Qin Jiao had suspected before that this Shen Yi wasn’t the original—that his soul had been swapped out. But now, looking at the very familiar custom modifications, she suddenly fell silent.

Because in her past life, Shen Yi’s favorite hobby was customizing vehicles.

Both cars and motorcycles. He was a daredevil to begin with, and his driving was even more reckless. He’d even caused an accident that almost killed someone, and it was Du Liya who had paid to make the problem go away.

’So, did this mean that the Shen Yi in front of her hadn’t been replaced by a transmigrator? That he was just like her—that he had also come back from the future?’